The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-04

ference. 1t was grown in the Lawrence
grove. near Maitland.
y. C. King, one of the partners in the big
Sims grove, has lust returned from Alabama
to Ococe. with his bride, and VIII now re
side there permanently, having moved lhuo
his new cottage, recently built.
A great many vegetables are being planted
on the river and outlet i'll Sumter county
this season 1t is thought that the bulk OF
the orange crop on the lake, outlet and river
will be marketed by January i.
Arrangements are being made as fast as
possible between the Oakland and jackson
Vile foot bali teams for game which is 70
take place on Dec. 80 next There VIII DC
some heavy athletic sports besides.
New section houses are being constructed
both at Clermont and Mascotte, and every
thing is looking lively down the Orange
Belt. Twelve miles more of the road Will be
opened to public travel in a few days.
A number of Key West spongers com
plain that they are not offered fair prices
! by the buyers for the sponge they have
| brought in. Some of them refuse TO sell
for the prices offered and have stored their
cargoes
1t is proposed at Tampa to erect memo
rial to William Cline, who lost his life dur
ing the latter part of the recent epidemic OF
yellow fever after having devoted all his
time since the outbreak to the afflicted of
the city
Thursday DIR. H. R. Benjamin turned the
Tampa post office over to his successor,
w. n. Conoley, through Charles r. Allen,
the old and new assistant DR.. Benjamin
has been postmaster in Tampa for nearly
eight years.
Key West Methodists were disappointed
last Sunday morning over the non-arrlval
of the Presiding Elder of that circuit.
Three times this year he was expected, AND
each time failed to come, owing to circum-
stances over which he had no control.
William Robertson, young man living
in the Reames' settlement, near Oakland,
while cutting down a tree on Thursday
of last week, met with severe
accident The chopping Of the tree caused
a dead limb to fall, which struck him on the
right arm, causing it to break at the elbow.
Orange Pascal, while carelessly handling
gun at Tampa, last Friday, shot and
killed John Donaldson, both colored. Pas
cal was arrested and given a preliminary
examination before Judge Harrison, the
same evening" and the evidence proving
conclusively that the shooting was acct
DENTAL he was discharged.
Gainesville Record: J. r. McIrvin re-
turned from his trip to Nicaragua on Tues
day last, In a conversation with him he
remarked that he saw some good things in
that country, and found rich land adapted
to the raising of fruits and other things,
but he prefers Florida. He reports the
people that went from here as doing well.
The thermometer does not run as high
there as it does here. He enjoyed the trip
well
Two prominent TallahaSseeans went down
on the Gulf coast last Saturday on big
hunt and fish, Late the following Sunday
evening they started to go across to a camp
that they had left on an opposite point,
when the tide relentlessly left them strand
ed ON a marsh, where wading was not at all
good. There they sat the live long night i'll
an open boat like two lonely sandpipers on
a deserted sandbar, with the wind blowing
a Dakota blizzard and the thermometer 90
lower than it had been in Florida this win
ter.
Tallahassee TdILdhdSSeedn: 1t is a very
noticeable fact that the colored people of
this county are spending less of their earn
ings this season than ever before. A man
with large family, who has heretofore
spent all he made and a little more, came to
town last week, sold his cotton, paid up his
store account, and then had one of our mer-
chants to count out for him, what was due
his landlord on rents. Carefully placing the
rent money in his vest pockets ready to hand
to his landlord on returning home, he IT,
quested the merchant to count out the bal
ance for him. There was a few dollars over
$500 when counted. He took the
$500 across the street and de
posted it with B. G. Lewis 81 Sons, bankers,
came back thanked the merchant for his
kindness, purchased few articles of winter
clothing for his family with his remaining
odd dollars, and still had few left when he
started for home. Many of the colored
people Of this county are doing the same
thing. A spirit of frugality and economy
heretofore almost unknown among them
seems of late to have come over them.
Many of them are now buying and paying
for the homes that they have rented for
years Comparatively few are spending
money for anything except the necessities
of life.
The case of the State of Florida VS.. Cook
was called at Enterprise, the comfy seat of
Volusia, Tuesday, and the entire day was
taken up in picking jury. Judge Beggs,
the States Attorney, represented the State,
and Maj. ST. Clair Abrams was counsel for
the defendant. Up to o'clock on Wednes-
day only two jurors had been impaneled,
and after the recess of the court for dinner,
the States Attorney filed an affidavit
by the widow of Hoyt, the murdered
man, that one of the jurors, named
Wryan, mad expressed an opinion to her
that Cook was crazy, whereupon Judge
Beggs made a motion to the court to have
him removed from the jury. Upon the ap-
plication of Maj. Abrams the court was
cleared while the motion was being argued
but ultimately Judge Broome denied the
motion. The whole of Wednesday was oc-
cupied in getting jury, and up to O'Clock
p. m, only six jurors had been impaneled
after exhausting the regular venire
of eighteen and a special one of 100
names drawn from the box The difficulty
appears to be that the main defense will be
temporary insanity, produced by excessive
use of intoxicating liquors, rendering the
defendant Cook unable to distinguish right
from wrong at the time of the commission
of the deed The defense rejects all who
would make no distinction as to the cause of
the insanity, if insanity is proven. The
court ordered another venire, returnable
Friday at IL a. m, to which time it
adjourned.
A Detroit, Mich, special to the jackson
vile Times Union says: Senator Jones said
this evening that he would leave Detroit
within year for his home in Florida, and
that he proposed entering the contest for
the United States Senatorship from that
State, and would be elected. In the mean
time, he said, that his sons and friends
might protltably employ their time
ninding their own business The ad-
vice of friends TO his son is so con-
flicting that he does not know how to act.
and so has taken no steps to better his
fathers condition. This many-sided advice
comes by telegraph, mail and in person. The
sad and annoying viciSsitudeS that are mark